Safe as Milk

…moderate success with the albums Safe as Milk (1967) and Strictly Personal (1968). Beefheart’s most famous recording, Trout Mask Replica (1969), produced by Zappa, proved an astonishing departure from previous rock conventions, combining eerie slide guitars, unpredictable rhythms, and surrealistic lyrics that Beefheart (who possessed a five-octave range) wailed with…

…and produced his first album, Safe as Milk, by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Perry’s first hit production was the debut album of singer Tiny Tim, called God Bless Tiny Tim (1968), which contained the celebrated “Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips with Me.” By the 1970s Perry had become one…